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From: jmc@inesc.UUCP (Miguel Casteleiro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Lattice 5.04 problem with free()
Message-ID: <112@inesc.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 89 02:07:36 GMT
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In article <36899@srcsip.UUCP>, carpent@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Todd Carpenter) writes:
> 
> [...]
> As long as we are on the subject of Lattice, why doesn't this macro seem to
> work?  (I'm rather new to macrodom, so this is probably a silly one) I
> have some terribly long nasty expressions that need to be squared, and
> SQR(moocow) never returns what I expect:
> 
> #define SQR(x) (x*x)

This macro won't work if you have SQR(a+b), because the result will be
a+b*a+b which is diferent from what you want: (a+b)*(a+b).

So, try:

#define SQR(x) ((x)*(x))

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